Cases of Note

Recovery in excess of $1,000,000.00 for workers’ compensation claimant with work related complex regional pain syndrome after the case was lost by prior counsel.

Recovery in excess of $1,000,000.00 for plaintiff with accident related complex regional pain syndrome in uninsured motorist and insurance bad faith lawsuit.

Recovery of confidential amount in product liability lawsuit in which plaintiff was rendered hemiplegic, brain damaged and blind in one eye by defective hand gun, subjecting the assets of the shareholders of the intentionally uninsured manufacturer to recovery through piercing of the corporate veil.

Recovery of confidential amount for plaintiff with traumatic amputation of the dominant arm in product liability lawsuit in which plaintiff’s arm was impaled and amputated by a defective commercial pasta maker.

Recovery of confidential amount in legal malpractice lawsuit involving mishandling of a product liability claim where plaintiff suffered traumatic amputation of the arm by a defective machine in a bindery.

Recovery of confidential amount in medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in which an emergency room doctor and neonatologists failed to timely diagnose a bowel mal-rotation and volvulus in a newborn baby.

Recovery of $995,500.00 in premises liability lawsuit against California municipality and governmental agency where plaintiff stepped into a hole in the street during a municipality sponsored function and sustained torn ligaments in her ankle and complex regional pain syndrome in her lower extremity. In this case, Mr. Shisler was retained as co-counsel by a California based law firm to handle all medical depositions, including cross-examination of the defendants’ medical expert. Effective cross-examination of the well know complex regional pain syndrome physician and university professor resulted in increased settlement offers in this case of difficult liability.

Award of confidential amount in underinsured motorist arbitration of motor vehicle accident claim in in which plaintiff sustained complex regional pain syndrome as a result of the negligence of the underinsured motorist. In this case, Mr. Shisler was retained by Montgomery County, Pennsylvania counsel to assist him with the trial of this complex regional pain syndrome case, which was subsequently removed from the Court of Common Pleas and arbitrated. Following the arbitration, he was referred the related first party benefits claim, which resulted in recovery of a confidential amount in the lawsuit against the insurance carrier for insurance bad faith, breach of contract, and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices And Consumer Protection Law, where the carrier failed to produce the report of a peer review which was its basis for denial of medical bills, allegedly in an effort to limit the recovery in the underinsured motorist case.

Recovery of $1,000,000.00 for plaintiff who sustained complex regional pain syndrome in motor vehicle accident.